The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories

Characters

Mr. Parker Pyne

Pyne is a retired government employee, a statistician, who considers himself to be a detective of the heart. Advertising his services in the personal column of The Times, he works alongside his secretary Miss Lemon, novelist Ariadn...
Hercule Poirot

Hercule Poirot is one of Agatha Christies most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels and 51 short stories published between 1920 and 1975 and set in the same era. Poirots name was derived from two other fictional detectives ...
Miss Lemon

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Miss Marple

Miss Jane Marple is a fictional character who is the focal point in 12 Agatha Christie crime novels and 20 short stories. She is an elderly spinster who lives in the village of St. Mary Mead and acts as an amateur detective. Alongside Hercule Poirot, she ...